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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
by Ching In Chen
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"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation... (read more)

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Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old
by Anna J Michener
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Becoming Anna is the poignant memoir of the first sixteen years in the life of Anna Michener, a young woman who fought a painful battle against her abusive family. Labeled "crazy girl" for much of her childhood, Anna suffered physical and emotional... (read more)

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I Never Called It Rape
I Never Called It Rape
by Robin Warshaw
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The classic book that broke new ground by thoroughly reporting on the widespread problem of date and acquaintance rape has now been completely updated to include recent studies, issues, current events, and controversies.... (read more)

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A Teenager's Journey: Overcoming a Childhood of Abuse
A Teenager's Journey: Overcoming a Childhood of Abuse
by Richard B Pelzer
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After the success of his brother Dave Pelzer's bestselling memoir A Boy Called "It", Richard B. Pelzer touched thousands with his own heart-wrenching account of an abusive childhood in his New York Times bestseller A Brother's Journey. Now, in A TEENAGER'... (read more)

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Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
by Margaux Fragoso
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One summer day, Margaux Fragoso swam up to Peter Curran at a public swimming pool and asked him to play. She was seven; he was fifty-one. When Curran invited her and her mom to see his house, the little girl found a child's dream world, full of odd pets... (read more)

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Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives
by Mark Pendergrast
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An honest account of a father's loss and his plea for reconciliation, this book is also a definitive scholarly work on recovered memory therapy and is widely hailed by professional psychologists.... (read more)

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Bullying in Different Contexts
Bullying in Different Contexts
by Claire P Monks
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Bullying has a tendency to be associated with aggression between children in the playground, but bullying and abuse can also be observed in other social settings. Bullying in Different Contexts brings together, for the first time, leading international... (read more)

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Understanding Violence Against Women
Understanding Violence Against Women
by Nancy A Crowell
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"Understanding Violence Against Women" presents a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and identifies four areas with the greatest potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence... (read more)

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Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse
Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse
by Linda Mills
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A radical new take on the crisis of intimate abuse, Violent Partners argues that as a culture we misunderstand the root causes and basic effects of abuse, and until that changes there is no hope of fixing the problem. Dr. Linda Mills challenges... (read more)

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Casebook: Sexual Abuse (Allyn & Bacon Casebook Series) (Allyn & Bacon Casebook)
Casebook: Sexual Abuse (Allyn & Bacon Casebook Series) (Allyn & Bacon Casebook)
by Jerry L Johnson
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This casebook on working with victims of sexual abuse provides students with personal and intimate glimpses into the thinking and actions of experienced practitioners working with them.    The contributors to this casebook combined... (read more)

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Denial: A Memoir of Terror (P.S.)
Denial: A Memoir of Terror (P.S.)
by Jessica Stern
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Hailed by critics and readers alike, Jessica Stern's riveting memoir examines the horrors of trauma and denial as she investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist. Alone in an unlocked house, in a safe suburban... (read more)

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Spouse Abuse: A Treatment Program for Couples
Spouse Abuse: A Treatment Program for Couples
by Peter H Neidig
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A thoroughly tested treatment program designed to be used with individual couples or groups of couples. Offers a skill-building training format that utilizes 40 interrelated behavioral and written exercises. The book includes reproducible worksheets... (read more)

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Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
by Erin Merryn
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SILENCE BROKEN AND STIGMAS SHATTERED-- HELP FOR INCEST SURVIVORS IS HERE Fans of Erin Merryn's heart-wrenching debut memoir Stolen Innocence were left wondering what would become of an emotionally fragile Erin after her confrontation with the reality and... (read more)

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The Source of All Things: A Memoir
The Source of All Things: A Memoir
by Tracy Ross
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Called “brave and heartbreaking” by Elle and “an extraordinary journey” by People, Tracy Ross’s riveting memoir about abuse, survival, and healing is now available in paperback. Tracy Ross’s adult life has been defined... (read more)

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My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive
My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive
by Harold L Turley
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In this groundbreaking memoir, My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive, Harold L. Turley II goes beyond identifying emotional, economical, and domestic abuse/domestic violence to prescribing a course of action for both the victim and abuser... (read more)

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Treating Child Abuse and Family Violence in Hospitals: A Program for Training and Services
Treating Child Abuse and Family Violence in Hospitals: A Program for Training and Services
by Kathleen M White
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Outlines a family violence treatment program within a pediatric hospital, with a particular focus on child abuse and neglect. Highlights critical conceptual and prcedural issues, and examines the limits of current clinical knowledge and related... (read more)

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Children of Trauma: Rediscovering Your Discarded Self
Children of Trauma: Rediscovering Your Discarded Self
by Jane Middelton Moz
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Imagine what it would be like to become the healthiest person you could be..... This is the inherent right of each individual but when lingering emotional trauma from our childhood blocks the normal developmental process, we get struck. As each of us... (read more)

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Love Affair
Love Affair
by Leslie Kenton
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A searing literary memoir of a disconnected childhood, a multigenerational upbringing and incest— from the daughter of legendary jazz pianist Stan Kenton Leslie Kenton was the only child of Violet, a stunning Hitchcock blonde, and the legendary... (read more)

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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
by Alice Miller
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In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.... (read more)

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Ending the Cycle of Abuse
Ending the Cycle of Abuse
by Philip G Ney
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Anna: Sexually abused by her father beginning at age one. Tanya: Raped by her father at age five. Lisa: Neglected by her mother and put into a foster home, she suffered severe and prolonged Satanic ritual abuse at her mother's hand. And Amy...Krista... (read more)

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